Valentine's Day - Your biggest lies you've told to get a date

To mark the release of raucous comedy Sex Drive, in cinemas on 9 January 2009, we've been asking you to let us know the biggest lie you've ever told to get someone to go out with you!

Here's some of our favourites...

"I told someone I was a dolphin trainer - everyone loves dolphins."
Thomas Perry

"I was interested in a guy who liked American football. I got him to date me by telling him I had won an all expenses paid 4 day trip to the Superbowl."
Lynn Savage

"I said my father owned a brewery!"
Amy Stupple-Bagnall

"I said that my brother was U2's manager. Worked a treat!"
Claire Webster

"Told an American Girl once that I was second cousin to Prince Charles."
Andrew Dommett

"I put on an irish accent and pretended that my grandfather invented Guiness."
Louise Clarke

"I said that i was thinking of becoming a nun, but a date with him could change my
mind."
Alison Ferguson-French

"I said I was Jordan's cousin. I'm the same size all over as her and every man believed me! I told them I had her number in my phone and they all asked for it and I'd put my ex-boyfriend's number in as his name was Jordan... and they all took it!"
Gail Cartwright

"I'm a director of my own company."
Ronald Shearman

"I made out I was a meat eater to score with the fit bloke who worked in the local butchers. It worked until about Date 3 when he cooked me a steak dinner and I threw up at the sight of it. Oops."
Beverley Kerry

"I drive a Mercedes' - didn't mention that it was a Mercedes van though!"
Stephen Bool

"My biggest lie was telling someone I used to be on TV in 'Grange Hill', as I used to get mistaken for someone years ago. It worked."
Matt D.

"I said that I was in fact an interesting person... years later she still hasn't noticed I was lying!"
Christopher Bell

"I think I'm gay, but I wouldn't mind you trying to convince me that I'm not."
Carol Mears

"Told a lad I only had 2 months left to live."
Ruth Barker

"I told the lady I am now married to that I had broken up with my ex 3 months ago, when at the time is was actually 3 days!"
Andrew Ward

"I told her I was a fighter pilot."
Mark Royden Hopkins